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A lot has changed in book publishing in the last ten years

July 23, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I am returning this September to speak at Digital Book World, a conference I helped to found and then programmed for its first seven years. (One motivation to go back is to promote my new book.) The occasion calls for some reflection. DBW itself has changed, having passed from book publishing company ownership to tech-information […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Borders, Digital Book World, Ingram, iPad, Nook, Print-On-Demand, YouTube

Conferences are thermometers recording the level of fear about publishing changes

December 7, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 7 Comments

In the latest sign that the need for information about digital change in publishing has undergone a sea change in the past few years, it was announced today that Nielsen will not stage an independent conference in London this April, but will instead join forces with the London Book Fair to do an event there […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Industry Events, Marketing, New Models, Publishing History, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, David Nussbaum, Denis Bennett, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, F+W Media, Frankfurt Book Fair, Ingenta, Ingram, KIPI, Knowledge Industry Publications, London Book Fair, Michael Cader, Microsoft, NetGalley, Nielsen, O'Reilly Media, Palm, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, Radius Book Group, Sara Domville, Scott Waxman, Sony, Tim O'Reilly, Tools of Change, VISTA Computer Services

When it comes to supporting authors in marketing efforts, no publisher has it right yet

March 24, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

It is my firm conviction that the biggest shortcoming of traditional publishers these days is their failure to help authors help themselves with digital marketing. In my opening remarks at Digital Book World earlier this month, I said this: At the very least, every house should do a “digital audit” for every author they sign […]

Filed Under: Authors, General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Publishers Launch Conferences, SEO Tagged With: Big Five, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, Google, Ingram, Ingram Spark, Pub Launch Kids, Radius

Now Kings of ebook subscription, what will impede the ebook share growth for Amazon?

February 17, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 23 Comments

With the news this morning that Scribd has thrown in the towel on unlimited ebook subscriptions, Amazon is the last player standing with an “all-you-can-eat” ebook subscription offer for a general audience. The juxtaposition of the publishers’ insistence on being paid full price for ebooks being lent once and the late Oyster’s and the now thrice-hobbled […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Subscriptions, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Department of Justice, Digital Book World, Digital Reader, Google, iBooks, Jonathan Kanter, Judge Cote, Kensington, Kindle Unlimited, Kobo, Nate Hoffelder, Nook, Oyster, Pete McCarthy, Publishers Lunch, Scribd, Steve Zacharius

Ebooks change the game for both backlist and export

October 6, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 12 Comments

There are two aspects of the business that ebooks should really change. One is that ebooks can really enable increases in sales of the backlist. The other is that ebooks will really enable sales outside the publisher’s home territory. The second piece of this hardly even requires much effort. At a conference called Camp Coresource hosted by […]

Filed Under: Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, Scale, SEO, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Author Earnings, BISG, Book Industy Study Group, Camp Coresource, Carolyn Reidy, Data Guy, Digital Book World, Diversion Books, EverAfter Romance, Ingram, Mary Cummings, Open Road, Simon & Schuster

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